Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:41 PM EDT
The Dutch caretaker government and several opposition parties announced Thursday that they managed to strike a provisional 2013 austerity budget.
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Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:14 AM EDT
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international war crimes court, a historic verdict that sends a message that tyrants worldwide will be tracked down and brought to justice.
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Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:25 AM EDT
The Dutch government, one of the most vocal critics of European countries failing to rein in their budgets, quit Monday after failing to agree on a plan to bring its own deficit in line with EU rules.
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Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:02 PM EDT
The Dutch government is suspending part of its aid to Suriname to protest an amnesty granted to the country's president and others accused of involvement in political slayings, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday.
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Tue Apr 3, 2012 10:46 AM EDT
The International Criminal Court has rejected a Palestinian Authority bid to clear the way for the permanent war crimes tribunal to investigate an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that began in December 2008.
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Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:45 AM EDT
A Dutch court awarded (EURO)1 million ($1.33 million) in compensation to a Palestinian doctor tortured and jailed in Libya along with five Bulgarian nurses for purportedly infecting children with the AIDS virus, the doctor's lawyer said Tuesday.
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Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:11 AM EDT
Lawyers for Belgium urged the United Nations' highest court Monday to order Senegal to prosecute former Chad dictator Hissene Habre or extradite him for trial for allegedly masterminding atrocities during his brutal eight-year rule.
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Mon Mar 5, 2012 11:40 AM EST
U.N. prosecutors demanded a 28-year prison sentence Wednesday for a Serbian ultranationalist accused of recruiting brutal paramilitary groups and using hate-laced speeches to incite them to commit atrocities in the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.
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Thu Mar 1, 2012 5:45 AM EST
The Dutch government's budget deficit will bust European Union targets imposed to keep the region's economy under control, a government think tank said Thursday, setting the stage for make-or-break negotiations between parties in the ruling coalition on how to cut government spending further.
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Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:01 PM EST
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic slammed the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Thursday as a puppet of NATO, calling it "biased" against him and other Serbs.
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Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:02 PM EST
Dutch maverick right wing lawmaker Geert Wilders has a blunt message for critics of his party's website which solicits complaints about some migrant workers: "Mind your own business."
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Wed Feb 1, 2012 10:03 AM EST
Lawyers for former Liberian president Charles Taylor have asked a U.N.-backed war crimes court for permission to reopen their defense case, saying a recently published Security Council report could help clear him of charges he sent fighters to commit atrocities in Sierra Leone's civil war.
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Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:45 AM EST
The Dutch Cabinet moved a step closer Friday to banning the burqa, making good on an election promise that is largely symbolic but has broad public support.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:16 PM EST
Ratko Mladic's lawyer said Thursday the former Bosnian Serb military commander will not be ready to go to trial until October, months after the date in March judges penciled in to start the genocide case at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.
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Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:34 AM EST
The International Criminal Court granted Libyan authorities more time Tuesday to answer its questions about Moammar Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent, who is wanted by the court but is being held by Libyan fighters.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:30 AM EST
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court Wednesday to face charges of murder, rape and other crimes allegedly committed by his supporters as he clung to power after last year's elections.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:59 AM EST
The International Criminal Court charged former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo with murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts Wednesday, crimes allegedly committed as his backers fought brutal battles to keep him in power last year.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:34 PM EST
Monique van der Vorst has completed a remarkable transformation — from Paralympic athlete to road racing cyclist with a top professional team.
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Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:27 AM EST
Prosecutors at a U.N.-backed court set up to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told judges Friday it is too early to stage a trial in absentia for four Hezbollah members indicted in the assassination.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:17 AM EDT
A Dutch court convicted five ethnic Tamils on Friday for raising illegal funds for the Sri Lankan rebel group Tamil Tigers, but in a ruling that ran counter to European and U.S. policy it refused to brand the Tigers a terrorist organization.
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Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:01 AM EDT
When Tamil Tigers were routed on the battlefield two years ago, the Sri Lankan government believed it had crushed the 25-year rebellion for a separate Tamil homeland.
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Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:23 AM EDT
Samsung asked Dutch judges Monday to slap an injunction on Apple Inc. to prevent it from selling iPhones and iPad tablets in the Netherlands, saying Apple does not have licenses to use 3G mobile technology in the devices.
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Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:17 AM EDT
Defense lawyers said Wednesday that prosecution witnesses who could testify at the International Criminal Court fabricated evidence against three prominent Kenyans accused of organizing deadly violence after Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election.
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Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:20 AM EDT
Five Sri Lankans accused of supporting the Tamil Tiger rebels in their country's 26-year civil war went on trial in a Dutch court Thursday, in a case that hinges on whether judges rule that the Tigers were legitimate freedom fighters or terrorists.
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Mon Sep 5, 2011 1:27 PM EDT
Judges refused on Monday to dismiss a terrorist case against a Nigerian activist charged with conspiring to attack oil pipelines in his homeland as well as people smuggling and fraud.
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